Man accused of ethnic intimidation in taxi driver assault

Updated 10:50 am, Thursday, December 1, 2016

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Western Michigan authorities have charged a man with assault and ethnic intimidation after they say he attacked a taxi driver while yelling "Trump."

Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Holtzlander was arraigned Thursday in a Grand Rapids court in connection with the Nov. 12 incident. Police say he turned himself in earlier in the day.

WOOD-TV and The Grand Rapids Press report taxi driver Yemaj Adem picked up Holtzlander and several women. Adem dropped off the women but Holtzlander remained, and the two got into a dispute over the cost of the fare.